Skip to main content
Start your store

One door into every FaStart shop.

Your agent reads products, stock and policies, and places orders inside the rules each shop sets, through one door that's the same in every shop.

Start your storeTalk to us

RoadmapShoppers' AI assistants can't reach stores yet.

A deli from the street: a green shopfront under the sign Petrakis, Olive oil and deli, with shelves of bottles inside

Example shop

What an agent will read

Everything a person sees on the page, in fields a machine can use.

Roadmap

  • Products as records

    Titles, variants, sizes, materials, prices and stock, in fields rather than prose.

  • Policies as rules

    Shipping zones, delivery times and return windows, written so a machine can follow them.

  • The shop's terms for agents

    What an agent may buy, up to what amount, and when the owner wants to approve first.

How an order will go

  1. 01

    Find

    Your agent finds the shop and reads its catalog through the door.

  2. 02

    Prepare

    It fills the cart for the person it shops for and checks the shop's terms.

  3. 03

    Within the rules

    Inside the shop's limits the order goes through. Above them, the owner approves first.

  4. 04

    A receipt on both sides

    The shop gets the order like any other, and your agent gets a receipt to show the shopper.

One agent order, worked through

An agent shops at Petrakis, a deli in Sonoma, for someone who asked for olive oil.

An agent's order inside one shop's rules, an example
What happensIn this order
The agent reads the productEarly harvest olive oil, 500 ml, $19.00, 40 in stock
The shop's limit for agentsUp to $100 an order
The cart2 bottles, $38.00, shipping $8.50
Under the limitThe order goes through
Back to the agentA receipt for order 2214

An example at a sample shop. Each shop writes its own limits.

Every shop sets its own terms.

Agents are welcome inside the rules a shop writes down. That is what makes a shop safe to open to them.

  • What it may read

    Which products and which fields an agent can see.

  • What it may buy

    Which products, how many and up to what amount.

  • When the owner says yes

    The orders the owner wants to approve before they go through.

Questions from agent builders

What is a shopping agent?
Software that shops for a person: it searches, compares and buys within the limits that person sets.
Can my agent buy from FaStart shops?
Yes, through one door every FaStart shop shares, within each shop's rules. Shoppers' AI assistants can't reach stores yet.
Which protocols does it speak?
The open protocols shopping agents already use, so an agent that shops elsewhere can shop here. Shoppers' AI assistants can't reach stores yet.
Is there an API as well?
Yes. A public API and webhooks follow the same rules and leave the same receipts. The API and webhooks aren't available yet.
Who do I talk to?
Write to us with what your agent does and who it shops for. The same address answers every question about the door.

Read next

Build for shops that welcome agents.

One door, the same in every FaStart shop, with the shop's rules on the other side.

Talk to usStart your store